State readies drunken-boater crackdown | The Columbus Dispatch

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story from Jun 20, 2010, titled State readies drunken-boater crackdown | The Columbus Dispatch.
In it, Columbus Dispatch reports that:

In the second-annual Operation Dry Water - a national campaign - additional marine officers will be out next weekend to remind boaters that driving drunk on the water is no different from driving drunk on roads.

283 on suspicion of driving a boat while intoxicated seems like a lot of man hours (tax dollars) for so few people. The article says that %70 of boat fatalities were drug or alcohol related. But it doesn't tell you haw many. There are millions of people that boat every year less than 1/2 % are involved ina aserious accident. Of those fatalities most are from drowning while too intoxicated , operating a watercraft while intoxicated is very very low. I'm not saying if someone is tore up they should be driving a boat but it's not a problem they are making it out to be.

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